ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an overview of the global market in online education. It presents information and approaches that can help with the development of online courses for international delivery as well as the training and professional development of the instructors, US-based or otherwise, who teach them. Online access and interest in technical communication are increasing on a global scale. The time is therefore right for instructors to consider offering online courses to students located around the globe. Providing effective online courses for such a diverse audience, however, is no simple matter. Until recently, online learning has remained restricted to Western nations in general and the United States in particular. Similarly, such situations generally involved classes of students that were geographically dispersed within the same country.
